32bit wpa_supplicant with an amd64 kernel

Pavel Roskin proski
Tue Dec 16 09:34:42 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> My wpa_supplicant refuses to work with my 32bit userspace Debian
> testing, when running on a 64bit kernel.
> 
> Everything else seems to work fine, but wpa_supplicant misbehaves.
> More specifically, it does start but fails to associate.  If I ask
> "wpa_cli scan_results" I see that it sees all the local networks, except
> that it gets their data wrong.
> 
> E.g. instead of seeing a WPA network with an AP's hwaddr of
> 00:14:6C:D5:59:9C, it sees a WEP network with a hwaddr of
> 00:00:01:00:00:04.
> 
> If it matters my WLAN card is a dongle using the rt73usb driver, running
> Debian's own 2.6.26 kernel.

It was reported already.  Fixes are welcome.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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